"Big Screen Entertainment Group Announces Its First MMO Video GameHOLLYWOOD --(Business Wire)-- July 27, 2006 Big Screen Entertainment Group (OTC:BSEG) is proud to announce that development is underway on its first "massively multiplayer online" PC game.

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Big Screen's MMO will incorporate elements of the company's upcoming horror/thriller, "Babysitter Wanted" and will be geared toward the 14+ teen through adult market. The title for the game will be announced in the next few weeks.

BSEG will roll out the game in two separate stages. Initially, a working MMO will be released within the next twelve months. The game's platform will be constantly updated offering subscribers new challenges and character options.

In phase two, the game will be upgraded to "Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game" (MMORPG). MMORPGs give users the ability to role play inside the real time virtual world as well as play against others. BSEG will concurrently make the game compatible for the popular XBOX, PlayStation 3, and comparable platforms as well.

"We're excited to have acquired all the components needed to make this a profitable, exclusive, feature rich, one of a kind MMO which will tie in nicely with BSEG's aggressive participation in advancing technology," stated BSEG's Daniel Silverstein.

"I'm extremely pleased with the deal we've made to produce the MMO," added Big Screen CEO, Kimberley Kates. "We are working with top notch developers and programmers who will adapt the most exciting and game worthy set pieces from our upcoming motion picture, 'Babysitter Wanted. And the cross marketing potential for both the game and film is phenomenal.""

This is the sort of shit that writes itself. If every piece of news in the gaming industry were like this I'd be out of a fake job. There's nothing I can do or say to make this funnier.

That's the silver lining of an economic recovery that's gone disproportionately to the wealthy; venture capitalists will waste their money on stupid shit like this, and eventually the wealth will trickle down to the grunts hired to make and market the thing. Hooray?

I'd just like to take a moment to announce my new mmorpg. It's called "MMORPG: The Cashening" (TM). In it players assume the role of trust fund babies and, seeing the wild success of WoW, decide to make their own MMORPG (TM). Players must be able to attract venture capitalists with wild subscription promises, and players with wild promises of fetuspults, housing and a ponie.

Some players will have an unrevolutionary but well-polished game while others will frantically redo their games combat system every year.

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